Personal information on several hundred employees at the the US Department of Energy has been compromised as the result of a hack attack, according to media reports.
The FBI is reportedly investigating the attack, which was detected around two weeks ago. According to officials quoted in the Washington Free Beacon, the damage …

The USA Government: Standard of Technical Excellence?

Re: The USA Government: Standard of Technical Excellence?

Let's consider your statement.

One agency has one office compromised, therefor, all agencies and offices are incompetent.

Manning intentionally released classified data. More should have been suffering for lack of due diligence and dereliction of duty, as the very moment he was flagged for deleterious personnel actions, his access should have been revoked. It's only a DoD, hence a US Army regulation.

So, his commander, personnel officer, intelligence officer all should have also been facing penalties for dereliction of duty.

One upside, I know of some IT and IA positions that are opening up at a US DoE office.